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how-similar
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This module compares two strings and returns a value on how similar they are from 0 - 1 (using a normalized levenshtein distance). The most basic use is:
> const {similarity} = require('how-similar')
> similarity('Dublin', 'Doblin')
0.833
The module can also compare a string to an array of strings to find which one is the most similar one:
> similarity('Dublin', ['Doblin', 'Devlin', 'Duuublin', 'Dublin'])
[ { key: 'Dublin', value: 1 },
{ key: 'Doblin', value: 0.875 },
{ key: 'Devlin', value: 0.75 },
{ key: 'Duuublin', value: 0.75 } ]
You can install with [npm]:
$ npm install --save how-similar
The module provides functions to deal with string / string comparison and string / array comparison. Still the easiest way to use it is to import similarity
:
> const {similarity} = require('how-similar')
Then as shown above you can pass two strings or an string and an array of strings. You can also pass a third parameter with options (it will be explained next).
The following use cases can be solved with the module:
> similarity('Dublin', 'Doblin')
0.833
> similarity('Dublin', ['Doblin', 'Devlin', 'Duuublin', 'Dublin'])
[ { key: 'Dublin', value: 1 },
{ key: 'Doblin', value: 0.875 },
...
{ignorecase: true}
):> similarity('Dublin', 'dUblIn', {ignorecase: true})
1
{stem: true}
):> similarity('This is Dublin', 'Thi is Dublin', {stem: true})
1
{except: [word1, word2, ...]}
)> similarity('This is Dublin in Ireland', 'This is Dublin', {except: ['in', 'Ireland']})
1
Copyright © 2019, Juan Convers. Released under the MIT License.
FAQs
Module to compare similarity between strings / arrays.
We found that how-similar demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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